[chuckles]

My daughter will be writing a paper on the courts handling of Dred Scott and Terri Schiavo. It basically will deal with the gubmit deciding who is human and who isn't. If the Constitution is for people, then all you have to do to kill someone is declare they aren't human, then take their rights away. The idiots here on FR that wanted Terri murdered don't “get it”. With gubmint heathcare, you could be starved to death, injected with poisons, or even disassembled for parts if you are no longer a “person”. I have thought a prisoner could “buy” good time if they gave a kidney or a lung to pay for their “debt” to society, but routinely I am called a monster for suggesting such things. But when I protest the murder of our most innocent, I get no help. By our system of laws, you cannot lose your freedom or your life without being convicted of a crime in court. What crime did Terri commit? How does a probate judge decide who lives and dies? Was she just equal to the family silverware? Shortly, people in nursing homes will be killed because they are no longer “human”. How long before being conservative will be insanity and a danger to “real” people? Hitler did it, Stalin and Mao also. It will come unless the law is upheld.

[wagglebee]

Great post!

Terri was the ONLY person in American history to have been executed by court order without being charged with a crime and found guilty be a jury.

[BykrBayb]

I don’t know your daughter’s age, so the following may not be age appropriate, but it’s a very good essay on the parallels between the Dred Scott and Terri Schiavo cases. It’s a pdf file, which I understand some people have difficulty with. I can freepmail the text upon request.

http://www.daveracer.com/dred-schiavo.pdf
Dred Scott and Terri Schiavo
The Long and Tortured Death of the 14th Amendment
At the Hands of the Federal Judiciary
Gary Amos
Copyright, April 2, 2005